Eminence

Rating: 88
Author: Gault&Millau

Champagne Christian Naudé

88 / 100 Champagne

Vintage : 2015

Type : Extra Brut

Classification : Blanc

Color :

Effervescent blanc

Budget : €25 to €45

Gault&Millau's review 2025

An impression of ripe wheat fields and field flowers with bees and butterflies. On aeration, sweet spices (turmeric, cardamom) mingle with notes of ripe fruit (orange, vine peach, melon) and lime blossom. The palate is more serious, with slightly austere notes of quinine and angelica energized by yellow lemon peel.

Champagne Christian Naudé Eminence

88 / 100 Champagne

Vintage : 2015

Type : Extra Brut

Classification : Blanc

Varieties :

Pinot meunier 34%

Pinot noir 33%

Budget : €25 to €45

Gault&Millau's review 2025

Brand : Champagne Christian Naudé

Name : Eminence

Region : Vallée de la Marne

Type : Extra Brut

Classification : Blanc

Appellation : Champagne

Year : 2015

Varieties :

Pinot meunier 34%

Pinot noir 33%

Chardonnay 33%

Color :

Effervescent blanc

Budget : €25 to €45

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Christian Naudé

A few kilometers from Château-Thierry lies the village of Charly-sur-Marne, the Naudé family’s stronghold in the Aisne, a department that accounts for only 10% of the Champagne wine-growing region. It is in this village, on these terroirs, and in this clay-limestone soil that Magali and Geoffroy tend to their 5 hectares of vineyards, planted almost exclusively with Meunier. In fact, Meunier reigns supreme in the single-vineyard cuvée *L’Hommage*, vintage 2019. As for the rest of their deliberately limited lineup, Meunier shares the spotlight with a bit of Pinot Noir and, at times, a touch of Chardonnay—or both.

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